Writer/Director Leigh Whannell Discusses UPGRADE!

18 June 2018

UPGRADE is a Cronenbergian influenced fast-paced action thrill ride and the latest feature from writer/director Leigh Whannell (SAW, INSIDIOUS) and Blumhouse Productions (GET OUT, THE PURGE). We were fortunate enough to catch up with Leigh for a chat while he was in Melbourne last week to promote the film.

After his wife is killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralysed, Grey Trace (Logan Marshall Green, SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING) is approached by a billionaire inventor with an experimental cure that will “upgrade” his body. The cure – an Artificial Intelligence implant called STEM – gives Grey physical abilities beyond anything experienced and the ability to relentlessly claim vengeance against those who murdered his wife and left him for dead.